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There Is No Value in the Loss. There Is Value in Remembering.
On sudden goodbyes, decades of grief, and the difference between drowning in a loss and letting yourself hurt when you miss someone.
Read article →School Shootings: Where They Began, and Why They Keep Coming
No one invented the school shooting. But a wave in the late 1990s created a script others have followed ever since, and the evidence shows how to stop it.
Read article →Christa Pike Survived Her Execution. Does That Mean She Goes Free?
A popular belief holds that a state cannot try to execute you twice. American law says otherwise.
Read article →What Happens When a NATO Member Attacks a NATO Member?
Ask, and you will often hear that no one knows. The treaty answers the question that matters: Who the allies are bound to help.
Read article →Canada's Military Buildup: Is Enough Being Done to Defend Canada, and Perhaps the World, From the Likes of the GOP's Authoritarian Trump Regime, Russia and North Korea?
Radar, drones, air defence, missile defence and the people to run them. What is on the budget, and are we fooling ourselves?
Read article →"Tougher on Crime" Doesn't Stop Crime. It Never Has.
Ontario is spending $3 billion on 2,500 new jail beds. The evidence says it is buying the wrong thing.
Read article →Trump Inviting Putin — a Legitimate War Criminal — to the U.S. Is All the Evidence We Need
Putin is wanted for deporting Ukrainian children. The President of the United States invited him to his own resort.
Read article →Attacking Carney for the U.S. Attacking Canada Is Less Than Canadian
Blaming Ottawa for Washington's tariffs misses the target. Canada's spending is an investment in a future the U.S. cannot hold hostage.
Read article →The Good, the Bad, and the AI
What people get wrong about AI data centres, and data centres in general. Every complaint about them is delivered by one.
Read article →MAID in Canada: Your Doctor Is Not Telling You to Die
Doctors have a duty to put every option on the table. When a patient qualifies, MAID is one of them.
Read article →She's hateful; she's MAGA; but is she qualified?
Danielle Smith says temporary workers cost Alberta $1 billion and pay back $150 million. Her own government's record says otherwise.
Read article →It's Not a Blank Cheque: What Americans Get Wrong About the Right to Self-Defence
The law gives you the right to stop a threat. It does not give you the right to finish one.
Read article →The Wrong People Are Confused: What the Trans Debate Gets Backwards
Trans people know exactly who they are. The people arguing otherwise have not done their homework.
Read article →Corruption in Plain Sight: The Doug Ford Record
The corruption was never hidden. It was just never assembled — until now.
Read article →Same Playbook. Different Flag.
The tactics crossed the border first. The question is whether the consequences will follow.
Read article →The Fiscal Double Standard: Trudeau, Harper, and the Crisis They Don't Want You to Compare
Same Crisis. Different Verdict.
Read article →Governing Through the Storm: What Mark Carney Is Actually Dealing With
Pierre Poilievre wants to cap the spending. Here is what the spending is for.
Read article →The US Is Losing Its Democracy to Corporations and Criminals
This Is Not a Political Opinion. It Is a Documented Pattern.
Read article →The Party That Hollowed Itself Out: The NDP's Collapse and What Comes Next
Jagmeet Singh never got a fair hearing. The party paid for it. Now it has to decide what it stands for.
Read article →Showing Up to the Table They Want to Leave: The Bloc Québécois and the Question Nobody Asks Loudly Enough
Québec's voice in Ottawa is legitimate. The Bloc's role in national debates is not.
Read article →The Leaders Canada Left on the Table: Wab Kinew and the Strength This Country Has Yet to Fully Welcome
He became Canada's first First Nations premier despite everything this country put in his way. Imagine what comes next — if we actually invite it.
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